If "Bitcoinica Consultancy" is handling things now, why didn't they notify us of the claims page rather than zhoutong? The more I hear from zhoutong, and less from intersango or whatever they call themselves, the more I lose confidence in the new owner/operators.
This +1. To start with, we never saw any communication from them indicating that anything that Zhoutong said was in any way incorrect, or that there was need of an apology to begin with. Of course, that could have been communicated privately, but from what I have seen so far even Zhoutong himself is becoming frustrated with the obvious stonewalling that we are seeing from the Consultancy.
Indeed, stonewalling is the best description that I can imagine for this series of events; to the public, and to those that wish to fix the problems, as it appears - since access to even the domain name has been fraught with problems such as a poor DNS implementation, leading to those that don't even use the forum to be forced to come here and find out the problem, and wait here for a resolution.
From what I've observed, I have a different perspective. The Intersango guys were brought to help with security not PR. For them to take any position of public communications would have been a breach of contract. The fact that Zhou had to become a team player for his creation caused him a lot of frustration. He was the main PR man up till the incident and should have followed through with a splash page and daily email updates (not just the forum), but instead we got a "I'm leaving Bitcoin" thread. He left when the going got tough. Sure, feelings were hurt and emotions were high. Zhou, if you really want to be proud of what you started then get back to doing the PR and be a team player even if you don't agree. You should leave Bitcoinica on much better conditions if it something you really want to be proud of!
The "I'm leaving Bitcoin" has nothing to do with Bitcoinica hack. I'm still here, but I'm not doing other Bitcoin business any more.
I was the main operator before Bitcoinica joins forces with Intersango. After that, neither the investor nor I possesses full decision power. Intersango guys took over the management entirely. Even my position in PR was not fully recognized.
I did suggest some ideas internally, but I shouldn't have criticized them for different ways of doing things (even though I disagreed).
They are working very hard, but at the same time, I have nothing to update either.
I see. Thanks for the clarification.
Edit: Looks like the whole Bitcoinica thing is going through a lot of growing pains. Glad to see you are still helping out 'till they are running smoothly again.
If they truly make good on all lost coins and do their best to compensate everyone they will definitely earn all of my trust and respect back.
However, the PR during the initial days was a fiasco and is still not where it should be.
Still waiting for an email with all the news and a splash page with daily updates.
I shouldn't have to find it here in this forum.